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Shooting from the hip

Sunday, 18 December 2022, 07:57 Last update: about 5 years ago Noel Grima

The latest news from Italy as I write (Friday morning) is that no less than 60 MEPs and assistants are now being investigated for their actions over what is being mistakenly called...

The grand, Grand Master’s Palace

Friday, 16 December 2022, 15:58 Last update: about 5 years ago Owen Bonnici

On Sunday, December 11th, around 3000 people visited the Grand Master’s Palace in Valletta free of charge and visited halls that had never been accessible to...

In politics to serve people

Tuesday, 13 December 2022, 06:20 Last update: about 5 years ago Evarist Bartolo

When political activists wash their hands of party politics because of corruption, cronyism and tribalism it should be a cause for concern. Some of these activists believe that the best way to serve...

Forgotten traditions

Monday, 12 December 2022, 08:00 Last update: about 5 years ago Alfred Sant

One understands the discomfort of those who complain that in the preparations being carried out for feasts and national occasions, the symbols and usages that brought them close to the life of people...

Good riddance to good governance

Sunday, 11 December 2022, 09:58 Last update: about 5 years ago Kevin Cassar

“I am committed to the highest levels of transparency in decision making, in the interest of good governance,” Minister Aaron Farrugia pompously announced.  On 19 January 2020, after...

The war on nature is suicidal

Sunday, 11 December 2022, 08:59 Last update: about 5 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

If we are to register any significant progress in addressing our quality of life we must once and for all end the war on nature. This has been emphasised by Inger Anderson, the Executive Director of...

Life is cheap in hell on earth

Sunday, 11 December 2022, 07:10 Last update: about 5 years ago Noel Grima

We have been having an almighty, confused, almost incomprehensible, debate on abortion, accompanying the debate in the House. People have been having their say. And then some. There have been...

Decisions

Friday, 9 December 2022, 08:31 Last update: about 5 years ago Owen Bonnici

Claire is a young woman and mother who suffers from many health conditions, including pulmonary atresia and pulmonary hypertension, so much so that she had one of her lungs removed in...

Construction

Thursday, 8 December 2022, 08:00 Last update: about 5 years ago Alfred Sant

I found it strange while reading the initial media reports about the great tragedy which occurred at Kordin industiral estate that so little was said about the works that were proceeding to build a...

Tourism flourishes

Monday, 5 December 2022, 07:57 Last update: about 5 years ago Alfred Sant

It’s not been happening just in Malta. Everywhere travel has continued to develop and flourish, despite the anxieties still being triggered by the high inflation and the Ukraine war....

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